Looks nice dude. Is it optimized for slow computers? (E.g. preloading the texture to speed up loading, etc) Because my connection is rather shitty right now and I can't seem to view the site after logging in via Facebook.

Glad you like it! We try our very best to have it run on slow computers... any feedback is very welcome if you see problems on your machine. We have a system where certain effects, like rain or snow, are automatically disabled once the speed seems to suffer. As far as slower connections go, we optimized a lot for that but at some points it becomes tricky -- could you please tell us any details to we@manyland.com ... your browser, internet connection type, type of computer and what you see when trying to join?

Sure, will send an email shortly. For the record though, it has crashed my laptop and caused it to reboot twice in a row now. (I was trying to wait for it to load.) First the screen would all get random artifacts everywhere then the crash. I hope this can be resolved soon since this can seem like a great time-passer.

Hey can you make some tips on collecting? All I want is to make creatures that roam and give the game life but I find it somewhat confusing. Other than that, I think im going to get addicted to this game!

Nice idea, and it runs pretty smoothly on my older MacBook. I wonder if you could give new players some sort of simple objective to get them going, as initially you're staring at something of a blank canvas. Alternatively, perhaps you could encourage them to explore and collect a certain number of block types, which would make it more likely that they'd encounter someone (or something) that would pique their interest.

Glad it runs nice for you! And feedback noted on objectives. We hope that for now people will run into each other to inspire team building, perhaps even mini games or quests, and we need to ensure to provide the right tools for all to empower that. We were thinking, for instance, a stop watch item could help with certain mini games. Anything you want to do but feel like you can't at the moment, please tell us :)

We just want to add that we don't in any way trigger anything that posts to your Facebook wall or anything like that (we wouldn't want that either from other apps) and you can change your name once inside (and no mail is visible in the world). We understand the issue though and are glad for this input.

As a fellow game-developer I can tell you with certainty that you will lose SOME people for every barrier-to-entry you put up. The first time someone plays, how about just a quick-play option, where they're just known as anon7834873.

You have a big advantage over a lot of games since you're in-browser. Most games lose tons of people at download process, either someone doesn't want to download, or starts a download and forgets, etc.

I would love a native login for the ability to (a) choose my name at the beginning of the game, and (b) create multiple accounts, or share accounts with family without having to worry about my FB account.

I too would rather create a new account than use a facebook or google account. Actually I find it annoying when I go to a website and it asks me to login using facebook/google instead of having the option to register... not everyone likes that degree of connectivity in their lives.

On the other hand, keep in mind that Reddit might have a bit of inherent bias in this opinion, even though most people here seem to agree. It depends on who your target audience is.

Yeah, fully understand the connectivity issue. Especially because some other apps and games kind of abuse these logins and do more than wanted, and from looking at the Manyland start page you may not be able to tell. By the way we don't connect your friends in any way, nor post to any walls, and as soon as you join you can change your name (and the mail won't be visible in any way to others).

Our target audience is everyone really. We want to create a world together with all of you which we are proud to be part of... and hang out in ourselves too :)

You can take a Snap/Screenshot by pressing F4. Once you have a screenshot of a location you can teleport there instantly. Access your snaps by right clicking yourself. It's useful to take a Screenshot of your favorite locations and before you start long journeys.

If you're online and need help or have questions I'll be here for the next few hours!

Hi guys! I'm Pretzel. I'm one of the first players in Manyland, so just like Godiva said, if you have any questions you can come to me and I'd be glad to meet you in-game or answer here :) I'm very excited to have a lot more people playing.

Love the game! Especially the creative aspect! There is something incredibly satisfying about seeing other people using your blocks and creatures.
I was just wondering... how do you level up? Does the game take into account how much you build, how many tiles you draw or how many people copy your stuff?

There are no experience points in Manyland. You level up by having actual experiences. Collect, Create, Build, and Expore. Chat with other players and make new friends. Eventually you'll start to increase in rank and new types of objects will unlock.

Once you're rank 5 you can portal to Inner Ring, and then portal to the other Outer World cities.

I'm so glad you had a great time! Hopefully we'll get to meet in game and hang out :) It does get a bit lonely at once, but sometimes it's very nice to have a quiet place to create :) We do meetings every once in a while and we have GREAT fun.

Pretty sweet. Had a couple issues where it seemed to crash or something so I had to refresh the page. Also couldn't figure out how to delete blocks. I can see this turning into a griefers paradise though. Already saw a couple dick pictures

True, we are hoping for a strong core community to evolve that can help to self-manage with voting and discussing and such, and this is a very big thing to watch. Every good citizen counts to help. There's an outer ring where new people are spawned, and an inner ring which requires a certain rank to go to... so it is a bit safer to build in inner ring.

Great! Please note that new people are currently spawned into two different parts of the outer ring, so it might be your friend is in the other. If that's so, if one of you upranks to 5 you can take the ring portal to the inner ring to go to the other area (or if both of you are rank 5, meet in inner ring). If there's any issues please let us know!

You can use the arrow keys to move and wasd, or when you chat already, keep pressing the w/a/s/d key a bit longer to switch back to moving with it. When you meet other people it becomes the most fun. We just had a multi-portal bouncing party near a giant chewing gum platform. Ok, maybe hard to describe :)

Sorry about the login issue, and we fully understand some concerns with those. For the record, we don't trigger any posts to your wall, or show your mail in the world (and you can change your name fully as soon as you land in the world), or "connect your friends" or some things like that. We honestly just use it as a way to make signing in quicker for you. But we noted the feedback of considering a native login one day! So thanks for the input!

Right, there's no mobile version just yet, but it's definitely wanted... speed in our tries wasn't quite there yet on some devices.

As for the realms, good point, there is an outer ring and an inner ring in Manyland. Everybody who is born into the world will be on the outer ring. Once you uprank to 5, you can take a ring portal to the inner ring.

Glad you like it! You can immediately change your name as soon as you spawn in the world, by either clicking the name on the top left, or by clicking your body, and then pressing the Name button. You can pick any name and it will immediately disregard the old one and not make the old one visible to anyone in the world. Hope this works for you!

And yeah we love Occulus Rift possibilities!

You can create your own body sprite as soon as you rank up to 5... either start with a wearable, which fits over your existing avatar, or create a fully new avatar body of any shape :)

Sorry for that! Indeed, it depends a bit on where you were spawned originally and the number of people around at the time. Please stick with us as we figure some of these things out together and evolve Manyland!

Sorry for this... could you please help and try again but before you do, press Ctrl+J in Chrome to open the developer console... now when you see the white screen, do you see any red error messages in this console? Any other details also welcome at we@manyland.com

world starting: production v500 manyland.js?v=500:1169
Denying load of chrome-extension://flmfagndkngjknjjcoejaihmibcfcjdh/lib/jquery.min.map. Resources must be listed in the web_accessible_resources manifest key in order to be loaded by pages outside the extension. manyland.com/:1
GET chrome-extension://invalid/ manyland.com/:1
7
WebSocket connection to 'ws://ws1x3x2x1.manyland.com/' failed: Unexpected response code: 502

Sorry for that -- do you by any chance have any extensions active, and if so, could you please try deactivating them for a second? If that doesn't work, could you please try close all browser windows and open again, then try once more? (It sometimes helped us when we get the white screen.) If that doesn't work, please email us at we@manyland.com so we try to figure it out :)

The only thing I run on firefox is the web dev tool bar, chrome I run nothing. Both after restart of browser still show only white screen. (I should note, I'm only selecting "log in with google") Both browsers are up to date. Also I know your site is not blocked, I'm the IT guy :P Hope that helps you're troubleshooting.

A tip for battling trolls and such.
Maybe be able to applaud players and 'report' abusers, kind of League of Legends esque style. When a dude has gotten enough downvotes, you could take a look at him and what he's created - something like that!

Game looks cool, will try it out.

Edit: Played around for a bit, me and a friend randomly found each other. Walked around some, and we desynced from each - i could see him being in a direction, but once I reached him, he wasn't there, and he couldn't see me either.

He then got bsod, most likely game related, as he hasn't ever gotten it on his pc before that - dno what to make of it!

You can't pick a new respawn point but if you're talking about an elevator that moves you automatically, you can crtl+click part of it to delete it, and stop you from pushing you forward.

If you have some solid blocks in your inventory you can also build platforms on either side to jump onto, and build stairs back down. Not a perfect solution but a workaround at this point.

If you have taken any screenshots you can teleport to one of those locations instantly. Press F4 to take a screenshot. You can access your snaps by checking out your profile and then clicking the film strip icon.

Love the idea, and can't wait to give it a try.
I'm currently only seeing a white screen on both firefox and chrome, however. I tried using CTRL + SHIFT + J so I could give you any information, but that doesn't seem to be working.